# RSPB launches 550,000 member appeal on Cliffe airport protest

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/02/21/rspb-launches-550000-member-appeal-cliffe-airport-protest/
- Published: 2003-02-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Half a million members of RSPB will receive a special appeal next week urging 
them to join its high profile protest against the proposal for an airport at Cliffe
in Kent that threatens to destroy important coastal wetland habitats.**

The appeal, developed by charity-specialist direct marketing agency Whitewater, 
aims to both raise funds for the RSPB’s campaigning work and generate tens of thousands
of personal messages of protest to the Government from RSPB members.

This activity is just one part of a multi-faceted ‘No airport at Cliffe’ campaign
planned by the RSPB in response to the Government’s consultation on the future of
aviation in the UK. This included the proposal to build a new airport twice the 
size of Heathrow on the internationally recognised wildlife site in North Kent.

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“This is a campaign that will be of relevance to every one of our members”, explained
Liz Rose at the RSPB.
 

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